See Stephen Colbert's Cameo In The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

It's not easy to become famous as a giant Tolkien nerd—we live in a world that includes this tattoo, after all—but Stephen Colbert has done an impressive job of it. America's favorite fake-conservative talk show host went all out for The Hobbit a year ago, decking out his set like Bag End and grilling Peter Jackson on all things J.R.R. Tolkien. He also hinted at the time that he might make a cameo in the next Hobbit installment. And now, because the Internet is vast and deeply detail-oriented, we have seen the cameo for ourselves.

Here's the screenshot posted to Reddit, via ScreenCrush:

Colbert appears very, very briefly as a spy in Laketown, that watery place where Bilbo and the dwarves hide out, get in trouble, get rescued by elves, meet up with the mayor, and generally cause a ruckus even before they awaken the dragon that lives nearby. Now you have all the more reason to catch up with this superior sequel, which has already made more than half a billion dollars worldwide. If people in Malaysia and Croatia suddenly become giant Colbert fans without knowing the reason, we have Peter Jackson and the spies of Laketown to thank/blame.